Bill: 'Happy' if Hillary runs in 2016

Bill Clinton weighed in on the prospects of his wife Hillary running for president in 2016, saying in an interview, “If she changes her mind and decides to run, I’ll be happy.”

“It’s entirely up to her,” Clinton told “Good Morning America” of ABC News. “I believe that she’s being absolutely honest with you when she says she doesn’t think she’ll go back into politics. But if she comes home and we do this foundation stuff for the rest of our lives, I’ll be happy; if she changes her mind and decides to run, I’ll be happy.”

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The secretary of state has repeatedly said that she has no intentions of seeking elected office after she is finished with her tenure as Secretary of State, but questions of whether she will make a second White House run have continued to persist.

Obama’s 2008 rival made clear in an interview last year that she has no interest in any other government job after she leaves her post at the State Department, and that she doesn’t want to serve a second term as secretary of state if the president wins reelection. On top of denying that she would run for president again, she also said that she has no desire to be vice president.

In a later interview with MSNBC on Monday, the 42nd president described his wife’s stint as a politician as having been “relentless,” suggesting that a break from the political world would be well-deserved.

“Hillary’s worked really hard for 20 years and it’s just been a constant relentless thing,” Clinton said. “I’ve been there. I know what happens when you go through this decompression after years of relentless high-pressure activity and I just think she needs to rest up, do some things she cares about and whatever she decides to do, I’ll support her.”

In addition, Clinton weighed in on a the national dialogue surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin on ABC News. He called the shooting a “tragedy” and said he hopes the Florida teenager’s death will lead to a “reappraisal” of the “Stand Your Ground” laws that have come under renewed scrutiny since George Zimmerman — the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed Martin — told police he had acted in self-defense.

“The law is going to create real problems because anyone can — anyone who doesn’t have a criminal background, anyone not prohibited by the Brady Bill and caught by the checks — can basically be a part of a neighborhood watch where they have a concealed weapon whether they had proper law enforcement training or not,” Clinton said. “So I hope this will lead to a reappraisal of the Stand Your Ground laws and I hope that the truth will come out and that the tragedy of this young man’s loss will not be in vain - it’s just terrible.”